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Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies

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Author Archives: Catriona Fallow

‘possibly apocryphal’: Anecdotes and Memories of Pinter

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 10th May 2019 by Catriona Fallow2nd July 2019

Much of our time on the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies project is concerned with locating, exploring and documenting ‘official’ historical traces of the life and work of Harold Pinter via various archives, libraries and published works. What we have also discovered however, is that a project of this scale focused on the creative output of one person is bound to uncover, solicit or otherwise happen across its fair share … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Interview, Legacy, Stage | Tagged Mixed Doubles, National Student Drama Festival, Night, The Birthday Party, The Questors, Vivien Merchant

Power to the People: Pinter, Amateur Performance and the Questors Theatre

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 11th February 2019 by Catriona Fallow11th February 2019

There can be little doubt that Pinter’s professional career benefitted hugely from the commercial theatre sector in the West End and Broadway, from state-subsidised organisations like the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, or public broadcasting services like the BBC. One of the primary aims of the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies project is to trace, chart, archive and contextualise every professional production of Harold Pinter’s plays in the … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Interview, Legacy, Production, Stage | Tagged Amateur Theatre, Archives, The Birthday Party, The Questors

Happy Birthday, Harold: Pinter at the Pinter’s Memento Mori

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 1st November 2018 by Catriona Fallow7th December 2018

On Wednesday the 10th of October 2018, Harold Pinter would have turned 88. 10 years after his death, the Jamie Lloyd Company (the team behind the unprecedented Pinter at the Pinter season currently running at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End until February 2019) gathered together an all-star cast of performers to celebrate his legacy in a one-off gala event, Happy Birthday, Harold. Framing the event as a birthday – … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, History, Influence, Legacy, Poetry, Politics, Production, Stage | Tagged Arthur Miller, Betrayal, Death, Harold Pinter Theatre, House of Commons Speech, I Know the Place, It Is Here (for A), No Man's Land, Pinter at the Pinter, Samuel Beckett, The Coast, The French Lieutenant's Woman, To My Wife

Harold Pinter at the RSC (Part 2): Reflections on the Archive

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 4th July 2018 by Catriona Fallow7th July 2018

One of the consistent pleasures of research into the production histories of Pinter’s theatrical work for this project has been the opportunity to learn from and work with the archivists and librarians at different institutions that hold rich and varied material connected with Pinter’s expansive career. Of course, as with any research strategy – particularly those engaged in revisiting or reassessing traces of past performances – archival research is not … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Interview, Legacy, Production, Stage | Tagged Archives, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Dumb Waiter, Theatregoround

Brian Blessed and Pinter’s The Room: a real knock-out

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 22nd December 2017 by Catriona Fallow6th March 2018

‘Shouting? Swearing? Threats? Menacing looks? I know what you’re thinking: it sounds just like a Harold Pinter play!’ Brian Blessed, Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder than Life Story (London: Pan Books, 2015), p. 77. As the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies team prepare for the holiday season, what better time to reflect on some of the more surprising finds and amusing anecdotes we’ve come across? In his 2015 autobiography, Absolute Pandemonium, … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Production, Stage, Uncategorised | Tagged Brian Blessed, Bristol Old Vic, Gulbenkian Studio, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Room, University of Bristol

The Peartaker: Pinter, Rudkin, and the Midlands

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 10th October 2017 by Catriona Fallow10th October 2017

This is the shine, the powder and blood, and here am I, Straddled, exile always in one Whitbread Ale town, Or such. Pinter, New Year in the Midlands (1950) ‘[I]n this gaudy, bawd-filled Midlands pub one even wonders if there is a glimpse of Pinter himself in “the clamping/ Red shirted boy ragefull, thudding his cage.”’ Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (1996) Ahead of the project’s first … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Legacy, Poetry, Production, Stage | Tagged Afore Night Come, Aldwych Theatre, Birmingham, David Rudkin, New Arts Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter

Harold Pinter at the RSC: Beyond The Homecoming

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 15th September 2017 by Catriona Fallow15th September 2017

Harold Pinter’s affiliation with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the impact of the works he produced there, and his artistic relationship with its founding director Peter Hall are typically discussed in relation to early seminal productions such as The Collection (1962), The Homecoming (1965) or Old Times (1971). These mainstage productions at the Aldwych Theatre – the RSC’s first London base from 1961 to 1983 – have become canonical both … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Influence, Legacy, Production, Stage | Tagged Aldwych Theatre, Michael Kustow, Old Times, Peter Hall, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Birthday Party, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Homecoming, Theatregoround
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